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Security News Bites for April 11, 2025

Settlement Checks Coming for 2021 T-Mobile Breach In 2021 a T-Mobile breach exposed data on 76 million customers. This is separate from the 2023 breach that impacted 37 million customers. If you are one of them, you may be eligible for some money. But don’t celebrate yet. The settlement is for $350 million. If all […]

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Meta Claims Using Pirated Books to Train its LLM is “Fair Use”

In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]

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I’m Your Printer … And I am Here to Hack You

We have seen similar attacks before, but not for a while. This one impacts Canon printer users and it affects production printers (I am guessing this means high performance printers), small office multi-function printers and laser printers. Pretty much everything. The bug involves a vulnerability in the processing that the printer driver has to do […]

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UK Braced for “Free Speech” Battle with VP

The UK is bracing for a fight with the White House over so-called free speech. Trying to do it quietly, hopefully. The British regulator Ofcom sent warning letters to several US technology companies telling them that Ofcom was about to enforce the UK’s Online Safety Act. Note that every country thinks that their free speech […]

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